From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 10:57:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACED01065673 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:57:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD328FC08 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so3691974fxg.13 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:57:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.32.140 with SMTP id c12mr6542956fad.9.1317380225160; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Sender: bschmidt@techwires.net Received: by 10.152.12.228 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:57:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [94.217.139.240] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:57:05 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: WN9vRDfqt0poVZoVQlVua4b2Ty8 Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schmidt To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hm, hostap+sta channel information isn't always correctly propagated X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:57:06 -0000 On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:21, Adrian Chadd wrote: > As part of trying to replicate what Ed's seeing, I did this: > > ifconfig wlanX create wlandev ath1 ssid TESTX up > for wlan 0 .. 3. It picked a DFS channel and started the DFS CAC machiner= y. > > Then I created a sta interface on wlan4 and it did some scanning, then > selected channel 1. > This is what I ended up with: > > adrian-home-mips# ifconfig wlan0 > wlan0: flags=3D8843 metric 0 mtu = 1500 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ether 00:c0:ca:1a:6c:d4 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <= hostap> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0status: running > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ssid TEST channel 52 (5260 MHz 11a) bssid 00:c0:ca:1a:6c:d= 4 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0regdomain FCC3 country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF tx= power 30 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 wme burst dtimperiod 1 > adrian-home-mips# ifconfig wlan1 > wlan1: flags=3D8843 metric 0 mtu = 1500 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ether 00:c0:ca:1a:6c:d4 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <= hostap> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0status: running > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ssid TEST2 channel 52 (5260 MHz 11a) bssid 00:c0:ca:1a:6c:= d4 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0regdomain FCC3 country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF tx= power 30 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 wme burst dtimperiod 1 > adrian-home-mips# ifconfig wlan2 > wlan2: flags=3D8843 metric 0 mtu = 1500 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ether 00:c0:ca:1a:6c:d4 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <= hostap> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0status: running > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ssid TEST2 channel 52 (5260 MHz 11a) bssid 00:c0:ca:1a:6c:= d4 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0regdomain FCC3 country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF tx= power 30 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 wme burst dtimperiod 1 > adrian-home-mips# ifconfig wlan3 > wlan3: flags=3D8843 metric 0 mtu = 1500 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ether 00:c0:ca:1a:6c:d4 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <= hostap> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0status: running > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ssid TEST3 channel 52 (5260 MHz 11a) bssid 00:c0:ca:1a:6c:= d4 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0regdomain FCC3 country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF tx= power 30 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 wme burst dtimperiod 1 > adrian-home-mips# ifconfig wlan4 > wlan4: flags=3D8843 metric 0 mtu = 1500 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ether 00:c0:ca:1a:6c:d4 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/1Mbps mode 11g > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0status: associated > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ssid CACHEBOY_DAGLISH channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) bssid 00:25= :86:d8:7c:da > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0regdomain FCC3 country US ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privac= y ON > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid= 450 bgscan > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 pro= tmode CTS > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0wme burst roaming MANUAL > > Shortly after this, I did a manual scan and it seemed to disconnect > from the ssid for some reason and reassociate again. Now all of the > hostap interfaces show up on the right channel. > > They were tx'ing beacons on channel 1; it's just that the BSS state > hadn't been updated. > > Hm! Do you know if CAC has been stopped/deferred as soon as you 'up'ed the STA interface? Doing a scan and CAC at the same is certainly not possible on a single physical interface. --=20 Bernhard